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Date: 30 June 2008 12:57:53
Following my post on Friday about the chickens I discovered some very interesting information.
All is not as it seems with the RSPCA's Freedom Farm standard. It turns out that there are too few Inspectors qualified to inspect the farms that are invloved, around 11 coutrywide. Therefore some farms are in possession an accreditation that they are not entitled to hold.
here have been several bad stories regarding the RSPCA and their press releases in recent months. Several well publicised trials have also not lived up to the RSPCA's pre-trial statements, this includes the trial involving the 21 horses that the RSPCA claimed were mistreated but actually the judge found that they weren't.
The RSPCA have be warned about their policy of briefing witnesses prior to trials and changing the content of statements provided to the authorities between intial complaint and trial.
Now I like the RSPCA and what they should stand for, The problem appears to be that they need the big publicity to draw in funds. As with all charitable organisations there are too many chasing too little. They also seem to push initiatives that they are unable to fund properly so that they do not actually achieve what they set out too.
History Today:
1905 : Einstein publishes 'On The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies', known to us lay people as his special Theory of Relativity. Many copies were sold throughout East Anglia and the US Midwest - however readers were most upset to find out that it was a science theorum and nothing to do with breeding habits.
1908 : Tunkguska, Siberia is hit by a comet. It seems that Carlsberg may have been involved as it is described as "probably the largest collision of its kind".
1940 : Britain is invaded by the Nazis; well the Channel Islands anyway. 5 years of oppression and shortages followed. People forget just how much they suffered.